Submitted on Sunday 2nd August 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 11th August 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
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Research and invest in Thorium nuclear `liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR)`.
I want the Government to look in to, research and invest in liquid-fluoride thorium reactors (LFTR) as an alternative to the current uranium nuclear reactors. Thorium nuclear reactors are much safer, cheaper to run and Thorium is much more abundant element.
Thorium is readily available & can be turned into energy without generating transuranic wastes. Thorium’s capacity as nuclear fuel was discovered during WWII, but ignored because it was unsuitable for making bombs. A liquid-fluoride thorium reactor (LFTR) is the optimal approach for harvesting energy from Thorium, and has the potential to solve today’s energy/climate crisis. LFTR is a type of Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (Th-MSR). It would provide cheaper more abundant energy and is much safer.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
In April 2019, the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, answered a parliamentary question about the potential merits of using thorium fuels for energy production:
www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2019-04-18/245888/
This stated that the Government had already commissioned research into thorium and uranium fuel cycles, an had considered these views and drawn on the expertise of its national laboratories to model nuclear scenarios that include the use of thorium, which were used to inform R&D needs on thorium nuclear fuel cycles.
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